Identifier: birdlore17nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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been a fewminutes before. For fully a quarter of a mile the Kingbird kept up the chase,ceasing the pursuit only when the Hawk had entered the woods. Then, evi-dently satisfied, and, no doubt, pleased with its exploit, it returned with ex-panded tail and rapidly fluttering wings, lighted on the dead top of a smallbush near the shore, and in a most unconcerned manner again took up itswatch for passing insects. The Kingbird was the sentry and also the fighting warrior for all that armof the lake. He was the self-constituted guardian over the destinies of all thesmall birds round about, and woe to any large bird that came near. Later, Isaw him several times, and he was ever on the alert. Once he drove off a greatTurkey Vulture, actually alighting on its back where evidently he held on to afeather with his bill. On two occasions I saw him make life miserable forCrows that ventured into his kingdom. I found his nest, too, and this was a discovery worth while. A button- (312) *« m \yc n #^
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KINGBIRD Order—PasseresGenus—Tyrannus Family—Tyrannid/E Species—TYRANNUS The Kingbird 313 wood bush had grown up from the mud and among the water-plants, perhapstwo hundred feet out from the lake-shore. It was a thin, dis-couraged-looking bush, but it served well for a Kingbirds nest. The NestIn this, three feet above the water, the rather bulky cradle hadbeen built. At a little distance it appeared to be only a streaming cluster oflong, gray moss, which might have been blown, during some gale, from a barebranch of one of the scattered pine trees back on the shore. When one camenear, however, and looked inside, another sight was presented. There, in acup-shaped inclosure, lay as pretty a set of eggs as one might wish to see. Theywere about an inch long, and perhaps three-fourths of an inch wide; and scat-tered about over the white surface of the shells were many spots of brown invarious shades. The nest was Kned with little roots and grass, and the wholestructure was so compac

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